"G Henslee" wrote in message
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Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
"Suzie-Q" wrote in message
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What are those limits? If the car is registered and legal, most towns
allow
you to park it on the street forever. Maybe the neighbor takes it out
for a
ride during the night while you sleep.



Actually many cities have time limits for vehicles parked on public
streets. Like 72 hours for instance.
Chuckle. That brings back memories. The town I went to college in had a rule
like that, and publicized it very little. Every time the school went on
break, the well-connected towing companies and the cops would scoop up all
the innocently parked cars belonging to the kids that caught a ride home,
and hold them for ransom at the private towing yards, accumulating
exorbinant daily storage fees that would ensure they had first dibs on
auction day. (Back then, unlike now, most college cars were cheap beaters,
and after 10 days or so, might not be worth ransoming.) I had an old VW Baja
I kept at my brother's house, and a neighbor simply hated how it looked, and
kept reporting it as abandoned. Me or my brother had to run out several
times as tow truck was trying to hook up. A real racket all around, taking
advantage of inexperienced college kids.

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